According to Chinese Astrology, the Year 2015 is the Green Wood
Sheep year. The first day of the Sheep year is on February
4, 2015. This day is different from Chinese New Year Day, because Chinese
Astrology calendar is not a simple Chinese Lunar calendar.

In the Chinese New Year of Sheep, Chinese always mention San-Yang-Kai-Tai
,
which means "Three Goats Start Fortune". Actually the term is from
,
which means "Three Yang Start Fortune".
Chinese replace by . Both and are pronounced as Yang.
is Sheep.
is Male and is the word from
Yin Yang.

San-Yang-Kai-Tai is from I Ching, which is the
most profound foundation of Chinese philosophy. It states the natural phenomena
of our universe, then applies it on people relationships in the family,
organization, government and the nation. The nature rule of the universe (Dao)
is Yin and Yang. I Ching uses the symbol of broken bar
as Yin and the
solid bar as
Yang. Yin is female, cold, earth or down. Yang is male, hot, sky or up. In the
morning, sky is hot and ground is still cold, which is the Little Yang
is assigned. At noon, sky and ground are hot, which is Big Yang .
In the evening, sky is cold and ground is still hot, which is Little Yin .
At night, both sky and ground are cold, which is
is Big Yin. Human live between sky and ground. By adding a human layer with Yin
and Yang on those four symbols, they become Eight
Trigrams (Ba Kua), which are
Sky,
Lake,
Fire,
Thunder,
Wind,
Water,
Mountain,
Earth. That's
natural phenomena in human's eyes. Combining
two trigrams together, they become I Ching 64 Hexagrams.

One hexagram has 6 bars. When applying Yin and Yang on them, we have 12
hexagrams standing for 12 months. December is the first Yang growing from the
ground. January has two Yang on the ground. February has three Yang on the
ground. Full six Yang is in the May. The first Yin grows in June. Full Yin
is in the November.

December

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

Earth-Thunder

Earth-Lake

Earth-Sky

Thunder-Sky

Lake-Sky

Sky-Heaven

Sky-Wind

Sky-Mountain

Sky-Earth

Wind-Earth

Mountain-Earth

Earth-Ground

1 Yang

2 Yang

3 Yang

4 Yang

5 Yang

Full Yang

1 Yin

2 Yin

3 Yin

4 Yin

5 Yin

Full Yin

Rat

Cow

Tiger

Rabbit

Dragon

Snake

Horse

Sheep

Monkey

Chicken

Dog

Pig

Therefore,
San-Yang-Kai-Tai is from Earth-Sky,
which contains the meaning of peace, harmony and good fortune. The time is in
Tiger Month, which starts around on February 4 each year. Chinese Lunar New Year
usually is near on beginning date of Tiger month.
becomes auspicious phase for Chinese New Year.

The Snake month is full of Yang. The Horse Month has five Yang. Sheep Month has
four Yang. Yang is hot. In Chinese astrology, Snake, Horse and Sheep are in the
Fire cycle. The Sheep is the last year of Fire cycle. 2016 will be Monkey Year,
which is the Metal cycle. Therefore, 2015 is the turning point year. We need to
review what we gained and lost in the past two years. In 2015, we need to
prepare a new plan for 2016.

2015 Year of Sheep - Enlightenment from I-Ching Hexagrams

Hexagram

Name

Interpretation

Sky-Mountain

Retreat

This is the sign the Sheep month. The basic meaning is retreat and perseverance power. Two Yin broken bars
in the bottom of the sign stand for the enemies growing from the ground.
We need to keep the distance away from those enemies (villains,
inferiors, subordinates). We are not giving
up. We want to discipline ourselves and plan for the future.

Sky-Earth

Standstill

If the enemies bring more gang in, then one more Yin broken bar appears.
That means becomes ,
which stands for standstill, stagnation and obstruction. When villains
failed to move things around, you will be asked to regain your position.

Thunder-Sky

Power

We need to give people of lesser ability opportunity. But if they cannot
perform, then we can take over the job. One option is to turn
upside
down into , which means
the power. The resurrection brings a greater power.

Wind-Earth

Observation

2015 is year of Wooden Sheep .
The connected hexagram is Wind-Earth,
which means observation. That tells us that to observe people's reaction, then take appropriate action.

Therefore, the
advice from Sheep is that one step back is for preparing two step forward.